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Movies that feel like No Other Choice (2025)

If you loved No Other Choice, the closest films we have are I Care a Lot (2021), All My Friends Are Dead (2020) and Men & Chicken (2015). All three share No Other Choice's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, MUBI and AMC+ and others, checked against today's data.

After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Park Chan-wookwittyplayfulgrittytensedarkly funny
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I Care a Lot
2021 · dir. J Blakeson
🍅 79%6.4crime · thriller · drama

Two things both keep coming back to: dark comedy and social criticism

The difference: Sits closer to drama than No Other Choice does

A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.

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All My Friends Are Dead
2020 · dir. Jan Belcl
5.9comedy · drama · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

The difference: Not nearly as gritty as No Other Choice

A group of friends at a New Year’s Eve party go through a whirlwind of events that exposes secrets, breaks hearts — and leads to a shocking outcome.

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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
6.7comedy · drama

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Leans harder into drama than No Other Choice does

Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

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Death to Smoochy
2002 · dir. Danny DeVito
🍅 42%6.3comedy · crime · drama

The same mix in both: grit, then tension

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuchsia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ratings and the affections of a network executive - Randolph makes the unsuspecting rhino the target of his numerous outrageous attempts to exact revenge and reclaim his status as America's sweetheart.

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Parasite
2019 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 99%8.5comedy · thriller · drama

The same two preoccupations: social commentary, and working class

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

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Adam's Apples
2005 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%7.7drama · comedy · crime

Comedy built on dark humor, twice over

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2000s show

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

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Look Who's Back
2015 · dir. David Wnendt
7comedy

Witty crime, and it commits to that

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon.

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The Last Viking
2025 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
7.2comedy · crime · drama

Thriller with a pulse of play, in both cases

After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has forgotten its location, sending them on a journey to recover the loot and confront who they are.

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El Infierno
2010 · dir. Luis Estrada
7.6action · crime · western

Both lean on grit more than on comedy

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · dir. Robert Hamer
🍅 100%8comedy · crime

Darkly funny crime in both cases

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

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In the Loop
2009 · dir. Armando Iannucci
🍅 94%7.4comedy

Witty thriller, and it commits to that

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

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The Ladykillers
1955 · dir. Alexander Mackendrick
🍅 100%7.6comedy · crime

Both lean on play more than on comedy

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

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